Melissa Lane
{{Infobox academic
| name = Melissa Lane
| occupation = Professor, academic
| alma_mater = Harvard University (BA)
Cambridge University (M.Phil., Ph.D.)
| discipline = Political Theory
| sub_discipline = Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought, Plato, Aristotle, Climate Change, Environmental Political Theory, Modern Political Thought
| workplaces = Princeton University
}}
Melissa Lane is an American academic and professor at Princeton University, where she holds the Class of 1943 professorship in the Department of Politics. She graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1989 with a degree in Social Studies and later earned a M.Phil and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Cambridge University, where she also served as a lecturer. Lane joined Princeton's faculty in 2009. Throughout her career, she has received numerous honors, including a Marshall Scholarship, Truman Scholarship, Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012, and the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize in 2015.
A political theorist, Lane specializes in ancient Greek political thought and its modern significance.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= 15 December 2014|title=Professor Melissa Lane |url=https://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/directory/professor-melissa-lane |access-date=October 13, 2024 |website=Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership |language=en}}
Early life and education
Lane attended public schools in Los Angeles, California, serving as a student member of the California State Board of Education.{{Cite web |title=Melissa Lane |url=https://politics.princeton.edu/people/melissa-lane |access-date=October 13, 2024 |website=Princeton Politics |language=en}}
She graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University with a degree in Social Studies in 1989. She briefly worked as an aide and speechwriter for President Oscar Arias Sanchez of Costa Rica after college who she met after he gave the Harvard graduation speech.{{Cite web |date=May 9, 2018 |title=Princeton Political Scientist Melissa Lane |url=https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2018/05/09/princeton-scholar-melissa-lane/personalities/in-the-green-room/ |access-date=October 13, 2024 |website=Zócalo Public Square |language=en-US}} She then studied at Cambridge University as a Marshall, Truman, and Phi Beta Kappa scholar, graduating with a M.Phil in 1992 and Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1995.{{Cite book |url=https://melissalane.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/829/2024/07/Lane-CV-2024-for-website-2024.07.pdf |title=Principal Appointment and Career History, Melissa Lane Curriculum Vitae |date=2024}}
Academic career
She taught at Cambridge University in the Faculty of History as a lecturer after graduating. In 2009, she joined Princeton University as a professor; in 2014, she was endowed the Class of 1943 professorship in the Department of Politics. She is associated faculty in the Department of Classics and Philosophy. She directed the Center for Human Values from 2016 to 2024 and was the first director for the Program in Values and Public Life.{{Cite web |title=Melissa Lane |url=https://uchv.princeton.edu/people/melissa-lane |access-date=2024-10-13 |website=University Center for Human Values |language=en}} She teaches in the history of political thought, specializing in ancient Greek thought and in normative political thought about environmental ethics and politics.
She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012 and a 2015 Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, among other awards. She has been a fellow at King's College, Cambridge, the Royal Historical Society, and the Royal Society of Arts.
Publications
=Books=
== Author ==
- {{Cite book |last=Lane |first=Melissa |title=The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2015 |location=Princeton}} (US edition).
- {{Cite book |last=Lane |first=Melissa |title=Greek and Roman Political Ideas |publisher=Penguin Pelican |year=2014 |location=London |author-mask=6}} (UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand edition).
- {{Cite book |last=Lane |first=Melissa |title=Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2012 |location=Princeton |author-mask=6}} (US edition).
- {{Cite book |last=Lane |first=Melissa |title=Eco-Republic: Ancient Ethics for a Green Age |publisher=Peter Lang |year=2011 |location=Oxford |author-mask=6}} (UK edition).
- {{Cite book |last=Lane |first=Melissa |title=Plato's Progeny: How Socrates and Plato Still Captivate the Modern Mind |publisher=Duckworth |year=2001 |location=London |author-mask=6}}
- {{Cite book |last=Lane |first=Melissa |title=Method and Politics in Plato's Statesman |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1998 |location=Cambridge |author-mask=6}}
== Editor ==
- {{Cite book |last1=Lane |first1=Melissa |title=Plato's Statesman: A Philosophical Discussion |last2=Dimas |first2=Panos |last3=Meyer |first3=Susan Sauvé |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2021 |location=Oxford}}
- {{Cite book |last1=Lane |first1=Melissa |title=Politeia in Greek and Roman Philosophy |last2=Harte |first2=Verity |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2013 |location=Cambridge |author-mask=6}}
- {{Cite book |last1=Lane |first1=Melissa |title=A Poet's Reich: Politics and Culture in the George Circle |last2=Ruehl |first2=Martin A. |publisher=Camden House |year=2011 |location=Rochester, NY |author-mask=6}}
=Selected publications=
- {{Citation |last=Lane |first=Melissa |title=Ancient Political Philosophy |date=2023 |encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ancient-political/ |access-date= |edition=Summer 2023 |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |editor2-last=Nodelman |editor2-first=Uri}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Lane |first=Melissa |author-mask=6 |date=March 2014 |title=When the Experts are Uncertain: Scientific Knowledge and the Ethics of Democratic Judgement |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/episteme/article/abs/when-the-experts-are-uncertain-scientific-knowledge-and-the-ethics-of-democratic-judgment/58308C294331E8A4872BEE2D530CADD4 |journal=Episteme |language=en |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=97–118 |doi=10.1017/epi.2013.48 |issn=1742-3600|url-access=subscription }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Lane |first=Melissa |author-mask=6 |date=2012 |title=The Origins of the Statesman–Demagogue Distinction in and after Ancient Athens |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/475337 |journal=Journal of the History of Ideas |volume=73 |issue=2 |pages=179–200 |doi=10.1353/jhi.2012.0020 |issn=1086-3222|url-access=subscription }}
- {{Cite book |last=Lane |first=Melissa |author-mask=6 |date=November 9, 2006 |title=The evolution of eirôneia in classical greek texts: why socratic eirôneia is not Socratic irony |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-I6ac3C59UC&dq=info:edlnh7YUJksJ:scholar.google.com&pg=PA49 |journal=Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy |volume=31 |pages=49–83|isbn=978-0-19-920421-2 }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Lane |first=Melissa |author-mask=6 |date=1999 |title=Plato, Popper, Strauss, and Utopianism: Open Secrets? |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27744811 |journal=History of Philosophy Quarterly |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=119–142 |jstor=27744811 |issn=0740-0675}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Lane |first=Melissa |author-mask=6 |date=1998 |title=Argument and Agreement in Plato's "Crito" |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26217487 |journal=History of Political Thought |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=313–330 |jstor=26217487 |issn=0143-781X}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090712063041/http://www.cpi.cam.ac.uk/our_work/executives_seminars/bep/about_bep/who_we_are/core_faculty.aspx University of Cambridge – Core Faculty]
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Category:Princeton University faculty
Category:American scholars of ancient Greek philosophy
Category:Historians of political thought
Category:Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
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Category:American women political scientists